Editing National Climate Assessment (section)

==History==
The First National Climate Assessment was published in 2000.<ref name="NCA_2000">{{citation|title=Climate Change Impacts on the United States: the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change|series=The First National Climate Assessment|url=http://downloads.globalchange.gov/nca/nca-2000-report-overview.pdf|year=2000|access-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref><ref group=Notes>The First National Climate Assessment Report was "prepared by the National Assessment Synthesis Team (NAST), an advisory committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act to help the US Global Change Research Program fulfill its mandate under the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The National Science and Technology Council forwarded the report to the President and Congress for their consideration as required by the Global Change Research Act. Administrative support for the US Global Change Research Program is provided by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NCA 2000)."</ref> Between 2002 and 2009, USGCRP previously known as the [[U.S. Climate Change Science Program]] (CCSP), produced 21 Synthesis and Assessment Products (SAPs).<ref name=GlobalChange_other_assessments />  The second NCA was published in 2009<ref name=GlobalChange_other_assessments>{{citation|url=http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/previous-assessments|title=Previous Assessments|publisher=U.S. Global Change Research Program|date=n.d.|access-date=May 5, 2014|location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref> and the third was released in 2014.<ref name=NCA2013>{{citation|publisher=U.S. Global Change Research Program |year=2013|url=http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report|access-date=May 5, 2014|title=Our Changing Climate|location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref>

NCA's overarching goal according to their May 20, 2011 engagement strategy summary, "is to enhance the ability of the U.S. to anticipate, mitigate, and adapt to changes in the global environment (NCA 2011:2)."<ref name=NCA2011_summary>{{citation|title=National Climate Assessment (NCA) Engagement Strategy |date=May 20, 2011|url=http://downloads.globalchange.gov/nca/nca-engagement-strategy_5-20-11.pdf|publisher=USGCRP|access-date=May 9, 2014|location=Washington, DC|pages=27}}</ref>  {{quote|The vision is to advance an inclusive, broad based, and sustained process for assessing and communicating scientific knowledge of the impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities associated with a changing global climate in support of decision-making across the U.S.|NCA May 20, 2011 page2}}

According to the USGCRP official website the NCA,<ref name=USGCRP_about>{{citation|url=http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment|title=What We Do: Assess the U.S. Climate|date=n.d.|publisher=USGCRP|access-date=May 9, 2014|location=Washington, DC}}</ref> 
{{quote|Informs the nation about already observed changes, the current status of the climate, and anticipated trends for the future; integrates scientific information from multiple sources and sectors to highlight key findings and significant gaps in our knowledge; establishes consistent methods for evaluating climate impacts in the U.S. in the context of broader global change, and provides input to Federal science priorities and is used by U.S. citizens, communities, and businesses as they create more sustainable and environmentally sound plans for the nation's future.}}

In 2013, the [[Barack Obama's 2013 climate action plan|President's Climate Action Plan]] released by the [[Executive Office of the President]] specifically noted the importance of the National Climate Assessments in achieving the goal of "Using Sound Science to Manage Climate Impacts".<ref>{{citation|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/image/president27sclimateactionplan.pdf|title=The President's Climate Action Plan|publisher=Executive Office of the President |date= June 2013 |access-date=May 9, 2014|location=Washington, DC}}</ref>

On August 18, 2017, a 15-member advisory committee that was tasked with writing "concrete guidance" based on the assessment was disbanded during the [[first Trump administration]]. NOAA said that the disbandment of the committee would not "impact the completion of the Fourth National Climate Assessment."<ref>{{cite news|first=Juliet|last=Eilperin|date=August 20, 2017|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/20/the-trump-administration-just-disbanded-a-federal-advisory-committee-on-climate-change/|newspaper=[[Washington Post]]|title=The Trump administration just disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change}}</ref> Under the every five year schedule, the next report was scheduled for 2027. Work halted in 2025 when funding was eliminated during the [[Second Trump administration|second Trump Administration]].{{r|NPR 2025/04/20}} The scientists and experts who had been compiling the report were then dismissed as the scope of the report was being re-evaluated".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Plumer |first=Brad |last2=Dzombak |first2=Rebecca |date=2025-04-28 |title=All Authors Working on Flagship U.S. Climate Report Are Dismissed |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/climate/national-climate-assessment-authors-dismissed.html |access-date=2025-04-29 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>